FOREWORD BY MARTIN SHEEN

Maryknoll priest Roy Bourgeois has achieved national attention for leading the campaign to close the US Army School of the Americas. From his Cajun roots in Louisiana to his stint as a Naval officer in Vietnam, we follow the route that led Bourgeois to Maryknoll and his work in Latin America that awakened his conscience to the US role in supporting oppression.

Bourgeois followed a trail of atrocities back to the School of Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia, and since 1983 Father Bourgeois has campaigned against the school. He has served several years in federal prisons for civil disobedience and his witness has turned a spotlight on a record of shame and aroused the conscience of the nation. The protest every November attracts more than 10,000 people from around the country.